Hi Josh, On Sat, 16 Jul 2016, Josh Triplett wrote: > git-config(1) documents the ability to enable or disable the pager (or > set a command-specific pager) for any command by setting > pager.<cmd>=true. For most commands, this seems to work as expected. > However, setting pager.format-patch=true (or setting it to any specific > pager) breaks badly: the pager spawns, with no output in it, and the > pager doesn't respond to keystrokes (which makes it difficult to quit). > > I think this may occur because format-patch's "reopen_stdout" interacts > badly with the pager. > > I think it makes sense for "format-patch --stdout" to respect > pager.format-patch, but for format-patch *without* stdout to ignore > pager.* and *never* spawn a pager, given that its only output (the list > of patch files) goes to "realstdout". As per http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/299451, the `js/log-to-diffopt-file` patch series will be merged to `master` soon. This patch series avoids the reopen() altogether and should fix the problem you experience. Since it is already in `next`, it should be relatively easy for you to build and confirm. Would you kindly do that? Thanks, Johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html